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JOSEPH WHEELER (1836-1906)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 586 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:WHEELER (1836-1906)  , See also:American soldier, was See also:born at See also:Augusta, See also:Georgia, in 1836, and entered the See also:United States See also:cavalry from See also:West Point in 1859 . Within two years the See also:Civil See also:War See also:broke out, and See also:Wheeler, as a Southerner, resigned to enter the Confederate service . In a See also:short See also:time he became See also:colonel of the 19th See also:Alabama See also:Infantry, with which he took See also:part in the desultory operations of 1861 in See also:Kentucky and See also:Tennessee . He commanded a See also:brigade at the See also:battle of See also:Shiloh, but soon afterwards he returned to the cavalry See also:arm in which he won a reputation second only to See also:Stuart's . After the See also:action of See also:Perryville he was promoted brigadier-See also:general, and in See also:January 1863 See also:major-general . Thence-forward throughout the See also:campaigns of Chickamauga, See also:Chattanooga and See also:Atlanta he commanded the cavalry of the Confederate See also:army in the West, and when See also:Hood embarked upon the Tennessee expedition, he See also:left Wheeler's cavalry to harass See also:Sherman's army during the " See also:March to the See also:Sea." In the closing operations of .the war, having now the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant-general, he commanded the cavalry of See also:Joseph See also:Johnston's weak army in See also:North Carolina, and was included in its surrender . After this he became a lawyer and a See also:cotton plater and in 1882,83 and 1885-19oo.was a representative in Copgress . At the outbreak of the See also:Spanish-American War in 1898, See also:President M'Kinley, in pursuance of the policy of See also:welding the North and the See also:South, commissioned two ex-Confederate generals—Wheeler and Fitzhugh See also:Lee—as major-generals of United States See also:volunteers, and in this capacity Wheeler was placed in command of the cavalry See also:division of Shafter's army in See also:Cuba . He commanded in the actions of Guasimas and See also:San Juan, was afterwards sent to the Philippines in command of a brigade, and in 1900 was commissioned a brigadier-general in the See also:regular army . Shortly afterwards he retired . General Wheeler died on the 25th of January 1906 .

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